Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-09-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

John Sherman ard Robert Lincoln would prove . winning ticket for 1888.
 Special timber agents are making 1t lively for timber thieves in Washington Territory.
 Governor Zulick has offered reward of $4oo for the arrest of the Atlantic & Pacific train robbem
 We hope. for the good name ot Ali zona, that law and order may soon be rcstoied in Tonto basin.
 Absconding, Defaulting. Swindhng Bucksbaum, excounty recorder of Mo have county, was . model democrat.
 Late news from Sheriff Fryer is to the effect that he has a-rested Eskiminzin and his entire band and taken them to pudleyviIle.
 A business man of Phenix offers to head the subscription list. .o induce the
 Mineral Belt railroad to build to that town. with Ss.ooo.
 Sheriff Fryer did not wait to get per mission of either Generals Howard or Miles before going to arest the horse thieves belonging to that wily old rascal Eskiminzin.
 Colorado has an ose-buying institu- t;oo-sampling vosks-vhich is charged vi,h taking all the ore from miners and then chasing them through the streets foe the sacka
 7 The opinion Of the supreme court of Illinois, in the anarchists cases. has been received here tn the columns of the Chr caeo Intes-Ocean. It ,s very volumin- ous, covering five full pages of that paper.
 The wealth of this section. and con sequently the source of our future pros perity lies hidden in our mountains. Our mines have not yet been fairly prospeoseo notwithstanding the bullion and ore shipped from here.
 Arizona has the proud distinction of being the home of the bronze turkey and the succulent potato. Prof. Lemon, the celebrated botauist, found the potato growing wild in the territory at an alti- tud. of 7,ooo feet.
 A subscription is being started in Bos- ton to purchase hymn books for the Apaches. In order to render the consignment entirely satisfactory the leaves should be soft and Pliable, so as to be readily used as gun ~adding--| Inter-Republicx.
 An exchange comments On the tact that the oleomargarine law takes from the pockets of the working people of this country over a million dollars annu- ally in taxes. Itputs into the stomachs of thousands of people also a better class of butter.
 When General Miles succeeds in getting bis favorise Apaches on the fer tile land of the Verde valley, 1t will then be in order for the citizens of that sec ton to present him with sword. We have one in this office made of tin which we would donate for the purpose.
 The most successful Indian fighter of the present day is General George Crook. The work he did for Northern Arizona, in freeing it of hostile Indians, is now attempted to be undone by Gen erals Howard and Miles, by placing these fends again in our midst
 The prayers Of all good Arizonans will accompany Sheriff Fryer in bis at tempt to capture the cattle thieves be- longing 10 old Eskiminzin's band Our wish is that he may capture his men or send the whole tribe. Eskiminzin and all, to the happy hunting grounds of the noble red man.
 Apache county has organized suc- cessful emigration bureau instead of one for immigration. The emigrants are of a c.ass of people not wanted there. no less than three Of them being granted the privilege of leaving or by remaining stand trial on different indictments against them.
 Owners of mining claims should de velop their property. The expectation of being able to sell a hole in the ground a few feet deep. no matter how rich it may show up. for a big price will never be realized There IS plenty of capital for investment in mining properties. bu' investors want properties with a reason- able amount of development.
 Several scientific gentlemen of the Smithsonian Institution claim to De able to produce rain at will and at any given point by means of electrical wires and strong batteries attached to huge kites. Their theories are rather romantic, but there may be possibilities in the way Of exciting a precipitation of moisture eventually discovered through means of .he wonderful and mysterious agency of electricity.
 The editor of the Albuquerque Clu- zen feels sad over the fact that the members of the New Mexico territorial press club of year go are scattered tar and wide from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and those who remain in the territory are somewhat soreheaded a, each other. and a genial, social. plain. common, editorial drunk and reunion WIS no, possible during the far this week.
 The Courier says that Bucksbaum,